View of a wooden barn on the left, with a small square house surrounded by a picket fence beyond and a row of trees running between them; a whet-stone standing near a log in the field in front and a man in the right foreground (Thomas Kirgate, the printer) standing holding a volume tucked under his arm
Description:
Title etched below image., Also signed in image: E.E. 1783., and Later state, with imprint burnished from plate. For earlier state with the imprint "London : Published as the act directs Feby. 1st, 1784, by F. Jukes, No. 1 Great Marylebone Street," see Lewis Walpole Library call no.: 49 3582.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Kirgate, Thomas, 1734-1810., Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England), and Strawberry Hill Press (Twickenham, London, England)
View of a wooden barn on the left, with a small square house surrounded by a picket fence beyond and a row of trees running between them; a whet-stone standing near a log in the field in front and a man in the right foreground (Thomas Kirgate, the printer) standing holding a volume tucked under his arm
Description:
Title etched below image., Also signed in image: E.E. 1783., Later state, with aquatint added. For earlier state, see Lewis Walpole Library call no.: SH Views Ed25 no. 8+., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Mounted on page 17 in Horace Walpole's Journal of the printing-office at Strawberry Hill near Twickenham in Middlesex.
Publisher:
Published as the act directs Feby. 1st, 1784, by F. Jukes, No. 1 Great Marylebone Street
Subject (Name):
Kirgate, Thomas, 1734-1810., Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England), and Strawberry Hill Press (Twickenham, London, England)
View of a wooden barn on the left, with a small square house surrounded by a picket fence beyond and a row of trees running between them; a whet-stone standing near a log in the field in front and a man in the right foreground (Thomas Kirgate, the printer) standing holding a volume tucked under his arm
Description:
Title etched below image., Also signed in image: E.E. 1783., Later state, with aquatint added. For earlier state, see Lewis Walpole Library call no.: SH Views Ed25 no. 8+., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Mounted on page 237 of Richard Bull's copiously extra-illustrated copy of: Walpole, H. A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole. Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, 1784. See Hazen, A.T. Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 30, copy 13., 1 print : etching and aquatint on laid paper ; sheet 20.8 x 25.2 cm., and For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
Published as the act directs Feby. 1st, 1784, by F. Jukes, No. 1 Great Marylebone Street
Subject (Name):
Kirgate, Thomas, 1734-1810., Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England), and Strawberry Hill Press (Twickenham, London, England)
View of a wooden barn on the left, with a small square house surrounded by a picket fence beyond and a row of trees running between them; a whet-stone standing near a log in the field in front and a man in the right foreground (Thomas Kirgate, the printer) standing holding a volume tucked under his arm
Description:
Title etched below image., Also signed in image: E.E. 1783., Later state, with aquatint added. For earlier state, see Lewis Walpole Library call no.: SH Views Ed25 no. 8+., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Mounted on page 187 of Horace Walpole's extra-illustrated copy of his: A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole. Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, 1784. See Hazen, A.T. Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 30, copy 12.
Publisher:
Published as the act directs Feby. 1st, 1784, by F. Jukes, No. 1 Great Marylebone Street
Subject (Name):
Kirgate, Thomas, 1734-1810., Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England), and Strawberry Hill Press (Twickenham, London, England)
An image of an outbuilding and the printing house at Strawberry Hill. A figure believed to be Thomas Kirgate stands in the road in front of the two buildings holding a large portfolio under his arm
Description:
Title written in black ink in unidentified hand below image. and An amateur copy probably after the F. Jukes print of the same title, which was based on Edward Edwards' drawing "Printing-House at Strawberry Hill 1784". The original drawing is held in the Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.
Subject (Name):
Kirgate, Thomas, 1734-1810., Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England), and Strawberry Hill Press (Twickenham, London, England)
A journal kept by Horace Walpole that documents the business of running Strawberry Hill Press, his private printing press at his home Strawberry Hill, Twickenham, England. Starting on 25 June 1757 with the erection of the press by William Robinson, the first of several printers hired by Horace Walpole to operate his press, the journal contains a list of the titles published, receipts for payment to the printers and their assistants, the indenture of Joseph Forrester, correspondence between Walpole and his printers about operations and the choice of engravers, receipts for supplies, newspaper clippings announcing the publications from the press, and two vignettes used in the Press's publications. With a medley print by Jacobus Houbraken on front paste-down with portraits of early printers: Joannes Gutenburg, Joannes Faustus, Laurentius Costerus, Aldus Manucius, and Joannes Frobenius which was also the frontispiece to volume 1 of Michael Maittaire's work Annales typographici ab artis inventae origine ad annum MD (Hagae-Comitum: Apud Idssvu, Valillant, MDCCXIX. Also with two prints by Edward Edwards: tFarm yard and printing house at Strawberry Hill; and, a portrait of Thomas Kirgate
Description:
Title from text at head of page 1, in Walpole's hand. and In English with some French.
Subject (Geographic):
England.
Subject (Name):
Kirgate, Thomas, 1734-1810., Kirgate, Thomas, 1734-1810,, and Strawberry Hill Press (Twickenham, London, England)
Manuscript, in the hand of G.F. Bawtree, great-great grandson of William Bawtree whose aborted trip to visit Thomas Kirgate at Strawberry Hill, inspired this satirical poem. Above this manuscript is a copy of the poem which was printed by Thomas Kirgate in 1797
Description:
In English. and Mounted on page 2 of William Bawtree's extra-illustrated copy of Horace Walpole's: A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole. Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, 1784. See A.T. Hazen's Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 30, copy 11.
Subject (Name):
Bawtree, William, 1744-1824. and Kirgate, Thomas, 1734-1810.